Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA1 on 31 December 2013 at 02:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 02:00 on Tuesday 31 December 2013. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.0669, longitude -2.80697, in the LA1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Scale Hall, Lancaster, LA1 2JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304BA13176
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 59 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 1993.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 7 January 1993
59 m awayRef 1993040BA0007
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 22 January 1993
65 m awayRef 1993040BA0022
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 17 June 1994
66 m awayRef 199404B102594
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 2 July 1993
88 m awayRef 199304B114693
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 21 April 1991
104 m awayRef 1991040BA0498
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 17 November 1981
112 m awayRef 1981040BA1563
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201304BA13176 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2013.